Date: 15/08/2011

Bird’s eye viewers have been installed at Montrose station so that people can enjoy the wildlife at the Montrose Basin. The viewing points are on the station wall overlooking the tidal basin a site of international importance for the likes of migratory pink-footed geese and red knot and also populated by a wide range of other bird species.

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The Montrose area in 1959 as shown on OS 7th Series Sheet 30. How many rail travellers over the years have been disorientated by Montrose Basin, making it look as if the sea is on the wrong side? The rail system was still intact, though Montrose Caledonian station is incorrectly shown as open to passengers when it had closed 25 years earlier! Kinnaber Junction, the effective winning post of the 1895 rail races to Aberdeen, is the one next to the Mental Hospital. That bane of the main line, the single track section between Montrose South and Usan (so it was built, so it remains) is laid bare. Crown Copyright 1959.
Location: Montrose
Company: Maps
//1959 David Panton

A Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen train comes off the 1881 South Esk Viaduct and is about to pass Montrose South signal box as it approaches the station in November 2006. On the right of the photograph is part of the extensive Montrose Basin.
Location: Montrose
Company: North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway
04/11/2006 John Furnevel

Crossing the girder viaduct to the south of Montrose station in January 2007. This viaduct replaced the one built by Bouch and tested to destruction.
Location: South Esk Viaduct
Company: North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway
27/01/2007 Ewan Crawford